St. Louis Circuit Clerk Mariano Favazza will have a chance to make his case for holding on to his powers today to a judge in Jefferson City. Favazza filed a lawsuit in late December challenging a decision to put the ...

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A couple graduates of the St. Louis Circuit Court’s drug court program are gearing up to share their stories with a wider audience next month. Presiding Judge David Dowd reports that House Speaker Ron Richard invited two people who just ...

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It’s now up to the Supreme Court to decide who’s in charge of court clerks in St. Louis. The state Circuit Court Budget Committee met on Friday and voted to recommend the plan offered by Presiding Judge David Dowd. Dowd ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court will honor the St. Louis and St. Louis County circuit courts with the Permanency Award at ceremonies next week. This is the second time the 21st and 22nd Judicial Circuits have won the award, which is ...

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An appeals court has determined that city-employed emergency medical technicians can be protected by official immunity, comparing their conduct to police officers rather than health care professionals. In a case of first impression, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ...

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Public defender Amy Clay comforts her client, Lujuan Tucker, 24. In May, Tucker faced a civil commitment trial in St. Louis County. The jury decided Tucker - a convicted rapist who'd served a 5-year prison sentence - was a sexually violent predator and committed him indefinitely to a maximum security facility in Farmington. This much was definite: there are 123 men who’d been civilly committed to the state hospital over the past decade. Not one has completed the program and been released.

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Correction: A previous version of this article should have indicated the plaintiff agreed to accept the videotaped apology in lieu of the monetary award. We regret the error. Below is the corrected version. A St. Louis police officer won a $100,000 apology against ...

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While many of the state’s court staff might have hoped to have the day off for Gov.-elect Jay Nixon’s swearing-in, only those lucky enough to be working in Jefferson City are not in their offices today. It has been fairly ...

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